Welcome to the second installment of Trailer Park, our regular look at the latest trailers to hit the interwebs. This second “volume” features trailers for the films showing on the Main Screen at this years Film4 Frightfest (with thanks to filmmaker, and Frightfest fan, Simon Aitken for putting the play list together). Thursday 22nd August […]
Stars: Brittany Belland, Tiffany Arnold, Riana Ballo, Jason Jay Crabtree, Jessica Cameron, John Bloom, Ali Ferda, Luke Frost, Paul Moon | Written and Directed by Justin Russell As a collector of VHS, The Sleeper is one of those films that has been on my radar for quite some time. The film was released in a […]
Stars: Jamie Blackley, Sean Teale , Michael Smiley, Danielle Bux | Written and Directed by Justin Edgar Review by Andrew MacArthur of Cinehouse Justin Edgar’s We Are the Freaks sets out to challenge the conventions of the traditional teen-comedy, and it mostly does so with a cheeky sense of humour and fond nostalgia for the nineties. […]
Yes folks, you asked for it and it’s back. One of our most popular regular features on Blogomatic3000, the poster round-up, is reborn here on Nerdly.co.uk! For our third instalment we have posters for Kick-Ass 2, Frances Ha, The Body, Only God Forgives, The Lifeguard, Ender’s Game, You’re Next, Red 2, The Wolverine, and the […]
Stars: Luigi Ciardo, Manuela Martelli, Rutger Hauer, Nicolas Vaporidis, Alessandro Giallocosta, Pino Calabrese | Written and Directed by Alicia Scherson Review by Andrew MacArthur of Cinehouse Alicia Scherson’s third feature-length film, Il Futuro, is a staggeringly impressive watch. Adapted from Chilean novel Una Novelita Lumpen by Roberto Bolano, Il Futuro is a thrilling tale of suspense, eroticism, […]
The good folks at LEGO have unveiled two new sets which will please the nerds in all of us. First up is an awesome (and massive) Star Wars Ewok Village set that has nearly 200 pieces and comes with a whopping SIXTEEN(!) mini figures. Then there’s the set everyone is waiting for, the LEGO Cuusoo […]
Starring: Daisy Lowe, Alfie Allen, Eliza Bennett | Written and Directed by Tobias Tobbell Okay, let’s start at the beginning for once: Confine is just an awful name for about anything that’s designed to entertain. Is it about confinement, or being confined? Or maybe it’s an order to confine someone? Whatever way you look at it, that […]
From author Jacques Boyreau comes Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box. Released by Fantagraphics Books, the tome is a trip through the good ol’ days of VHS, looking back at what is very quickly looking like a lost art. Back in the 80s I used to spend hours perusing the shelves of my […]
Stars: Jessica Parker Kennedy, Elisabeth Hartnois, Dave Franco, Mark Pellegrino, Taj Mwohry | Written by Paul Gerstenberger | Directed by Lulu Jarmen Bad Meat stars Jessica Parker Kennedy from the Kevin Williamson created The Secret Circle, in a low-budget splatter flick, scripted by an Englishman and lensed in Canada, playing a tough-as-nails teenager who, along with a group of her peers […]
With Dark Water and Ringu director Hideo Nakata’s The Complex making its UK debut at this years Edinburgh Film Festival (review here), we thought we’d take a look at the ten best scariest foreign language films. Read on… If you dare! The Orphanage (El orfanato) – 2007 The Orphanage centers on Laura who purchases her […]
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar | Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Review by Joe Cronin Attracting a whirlwind of controversy on its way, Django Unchained hits UK cinemas this week. Tarantino returns after a three year hiatus, bringing his trademark mixture of sharp wit and gut-wrenching violence […]
Childhood should be a special time in all of our lives. Where we have yet to be ruined by the cynicism of our society, and our hopes and dreams reflect the purity of our souls. Childhood can also have its fair share of tribulations as well. Tragedy and heartbreak are not segregated to specific age […]
Welcome horror fans to the UK debut of the July edition of Horror Bites, the Horror Channel’s monthly guide to some of the highlights coming your way in the next month… Yes, you did read that right folks, our good friends at the Horror Channel have let us have the exclusive UK debut of their monthly […]
Stars: Emma Watson, Katie Chang, Leslie Mann, Israel Broussard, Katie Chang | Written and Directed by Sofia Coppola Review by Andrew MacArthur of The Peoples Movies The Bling Ring marks Sofia Coppola’s first feature since 2010′s outstanding Somewhere and faces the challenge of living up to the quality of this and her previous body of work. Whilst The […]
Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Masanobu Katsumura | Written by Junya Kato, Ryûta Miyake | Directed by Hideo Nakata Review by Andrew MacArthur of Cinehouse We should know better than to get excited when a once great horror director makes a back to basics comeback. It’s happened with John Carpenter (The Ward), George A. Romero (Survival of […]
In the immortal words of the legendary Rocky Balboa “It Ain’t How Hard You Hit… It’s How Hard You Can Get Hit and Keep Moving Forward”. Steven Spielberg certainly got hit hard when 1941 proved to be a massive disappointment. In many ways Spielberg was a victim of his own accomplishments, because 1941 was actually commercial success—just not as […]
The Jameson First Shot competition is an annual competition that allows for emerging filmmakers to get their work made and get a break into the industry. With numerous submissions, Shirlyn Wong was the United States finalist, along with Russian finalist Anton Lanshakov for his short The Smile Man, and South African finalist Hanneke Schutte for […]
On June 19th, Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti and Willem Dafoe were in attendance at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn to celebrate the United States winner of the Jameson First Shot competition. USA winner Shirlyn Wong was in attendance for the world premiere of her short film, Love’s Routine. The Jameson First Shot competition is an […]
19th June 2013 Jack Saga Volume 2, trade paperback, Brian K Vaughan, Fiona Staples, Image Comics This is the first of two trade paperbacks I splurged on this week, though technically I’ve saved money by choosing to follow Saga in trades rather than monthly books. Saga is the uh, saga of a couple from opposing […]
Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, Ludi Boeken, Matthew Fox, Fana Mokoena, David Morse, Peter Capaldi | Written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof | Directed by Marc Forster World War Z won’t win many if any awards but if there was a prize for a film being more […]
Stars: Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Scott Paulin, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Michael Nouri, Kim Gillingham, Melinda Dillon, Bill Mumy, Francesca Neri | Written by Stephen Tolkin | Directed by Albert Pyun Some twenty-odd years ago I was an unassuming teenager who used to spend most evenings trawling the shelves of my local video store looking […]
